Remember... this is a felony.

Late last month, Abrams was distressed to see that his 19-year-old son, Evan, had bought a 7.62mm infantry rifle from a friend for $300. So, over Evan's objections, Abrams locked the SKS in the trunk of his car. He had the gun in his trunk for nearly 24 hours before he stopped outside the West Linn Police Station and called the front desk. Sgt. Rick Senger came out to take the gun. The gun went into the police evidence locker and will be destroyed at the incinerator in Brooks, where Marion County burns garbage to generate energy.

If you don't want your son, who is legally an adult, to keep a gun in your home, that's your perogative. But you do not have the right to take it from him by force and have it destroyed. It is not your property. It is your son's property. And it is perfectly legal for him to have.